star scientists and firms have a large positive impact on firms'" research productivity, increasing the average firm … there is little evidence of geographically localized knowledge spillovers. In early industry" formation, star scientists … firm scientists work" in the stars' university laboratories in contrast to America where the stars are more likely to work …

reward system and of the representative scientist. Few scholars have examined whether and how scientists' motives to engage …

by the labor mobility of top scientists from universities and research institutes to firms. We model labor mobility as a …), potential interfering offers from universities, and experienced increase in productivity of top scientists already in firms … increases with increases in local firms commercializing the technology and the percentage of ties to scientists outside the …

-scale, random sample cross-section surveys of nearly 1,500 scientists at the original 52 Land Grant Universities in 2005 and 2015 …